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The room into which Meggie and Abbershaw were thrust so unceremoniously in the middle of the night was one of the three which opened out on to the small winding staircase leading down to Colonel Coombe's study.
It was comparatively empty, containing only a pile of disused tapestries and old curtains, two or three travelling trunks and a chair.